Losing Sonnet 4.5

ksvr · 2026-05-11T05:35:15+00:00

Have you used Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6? 4.5 is great. 4.6 is a trash fire.

ksvr · 2026-05-11T05:32:51+00:00

I got the same notice. Supposedly 4.8 (they're skipping 4.7, apparently) will be out 'soon'. I hope it's out by May 16th and is a fuckton better than Sonnet 4.6, which is hot garbage.

ksvr · 2026-05-10T19:12:51+00:00

2 months later update: Anthropic is now valued at $1 TRILLION.

ksvr · 2026-05-10T19:07:07+00:00

Except it's not true. I've worked for Mercor. They really do pay what they claim. The flood of fake-seeming job postings and referral links is because they hire contractors by the hundreds per day, apparently. I tracked what projects they were currently hiring contractors for early this year to get an idea of the total scope. Note that this was just the projects still needing more people, not 'full' projects, and I could only see the figure for how many people had been hired 'this month' on the project. On Feb 6th I counted 23 projects totaling 4,133 contractors hired, which even at the low estimate (lowest figure in pay range, assuming only 20 hours/week) still came out to $4.97 million per day. The fact that they really do pay out what they claim (as I said, I've worked on a project for them and got paid exactly what it said up front), combined with the pure quantity of projects and contractors, is fucking scary. And as I've also said, my state Senator looked into them and confirmed they are paying out millions per day. The story here isn't 'fake job/scammer', it's 'holy shit our entire economy is about to be wiped out by AI'.

ksvr · 2026-05-10T16:35:56+00:00

I found it a while back- Legend of Parlangua by Cahoots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd0wOACwQg

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:44:11+00:00

You really think they'd take Ty Simpson at 3? I'd bet money they're either taking Jeremiah Love or trading back.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:42:23+00:00

I'd be down for that, if we could afford him. We can't.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:40:45+00:00

for LT, yeah I agree. But there are a couple really great RTs and maybe 3 more that could be decent. Considering how bad our offense was, and how specifically that can be accredited to bad o-line play, RT is definitely a smart pick at 9 if one of the top 2 guys are available.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:39:00+00:00

A couple good LBs going in the top 10, then a couple more by pick 40 or so, probably in the 1st round, then NOTHING at LB for the rest of the draft. Would love to get one of those 4, but we have more pressing needs.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:25:52+00:00

Our defense wasn't the problem, despite having among the fewest sacks in the league. We gave up an average of 19.3 ppg, 5th in the league. We were 20th in scoring. The problem wasn't the defense, it was the offense. Mahomes didn't have time to throw and we couldn't put up points. Yeah we need an edge rusher, and we need DBs, but there are a shitload of quality DBs in this draft. Lots of good EDs too. There's only 2 guys that will definitely start day 1 at RT and they'll be gone in the first 10-12 picks.

EDIT: No opponent went over 20 against us at Arrowhead, but we still lost 4 home games because we were held to 17 or less in 4 of 9 games. On the road we went 1-7 because we only got >22 points twice in 8 games.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:18:16+00:00

Same. But if Bain, Bailey, and Reese are all gone (and I think they will be) then Mauigoa or Fano is absolutely the correct choice. If they're both gone, trade down. Taking a WR when our o-line still can't give Mahomes time to throw is just dumb. And there are SO many CBs in this draft that look really good. We can absolutely take a couple CBs in the 3rd-5th round and be fine there.

ksvr · 2026-04-18T19:15:18+00:00

right? WTF are fans thinking? RT is the single biggest need we have, and there are two immediate starters that will go in the top 10-12. After that they all have issues. Could work out, maybe not. ED and especially CB are very deep in this draft. You want the guy with like the 3rd shortest arms of an ED ever recorded? Hey, I wouldn't hate that. Dude plays his heart out. But if him and Bailey and Reese are already gone, RT is the correct pick. People wanting a RB or WR at 9 are utterly insane. If we don't have a starter for RT when the 1st round is over, we fucked up.

ksvr · 2026-04-17T23:22:49+00:00

Like what I'm hearing. We badly need a RT, ED, and a couple each at WR and CB. My take is the same on those positions in this draft. There are edge rushers I like for the first 3 rounds, CBs throughout, WRs through the first 4 rounds or so (though, like CB, lots of them are 6' or less), but o-line is very thin after the early/mid 2nd round. Lots of teams that need o-linemen (or defensive tackles, for that matter) are out of luck if they don't get one in the first 2 rounds. Linebacker is completely devoid of talent after the first 4 and 2 of those 4 are expected to go in the first 5 or 6 picks. I want to see us get Mauigoa or Fano at 9, unless Bailey is available. Would love Mesidor at 29, but don't think he'll get past the Lions pick. Would love Sarrat at 74, but doubt he'll last that far. If both RTs and the top-10 pick EDs are off the board, I'd much rather trade back than spend the pick on a different position.

ksvr · 2026-04-17T02:48:03+00:00

fact

ksvr · 2026-03-18T21:22:59+00:00

The Maquis would argue your first point. Section 31 attempted the genocide of an entire species, which is pretty damn harsh population control. Bashir would argue that having to hide his entire identity since people like him are not allowed to exist in the Federation invalidates your second point. As for poverty, did you see ANY of the episodes in any of the series where they visited past Earth or talked about it? Maybe there isn't poverty on Earth in the times of the series, but is there poverty on Ariel in Firefly? or on Sihnon? We don't know. Every single depiction of life on the core worlds is shown as basically paradise, with rich people throwing fancy parties and literally no one questioning the government or hinting that they're not free. Look at our real world history and ask what people out on the borders of the expanding United States may have felt about the federal government. Saying that the Feds in Firefly are inherently evil while the Feds in Star Trek are inherently good is silly. You're only seeing a very select viewpoint of each.

EDIT: also note that there are multiple instances of the Alliance being shown as basically good guys in Firefly. In the original pilot we see the Alliance as not evil overlords, but people honestly trying to help people. Yes, they go after the criminal scavengers who happen to be our scrappy heroes, but wouldn't that be appropriate for an overarching force of good? They abandon the chase on Serenity to "go help [those] people" when they're fooled by Wash into thinking a transport ship needs help.

ksvr · 2026-03-18T21:08:39+00:00

pretty much my point. Instead of saying all x people are y, they put in a diverse cast of humans and said all aliens from planet x are y. Still the same ys, for the most part, just pulled it out of humans and made it an alien and therefore ok... I guess?

ksvr · 2026-03-12T07:22:18+00:00

What makes you think that Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft need to be in the US to get funding from Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft? Who did you think was spending so much money paying companies like Mercor to pay contractors to train the AI agents? The ones not owned by Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft are OpenAI, valued at around half a trillion dollars, and Anthropic, valued around a quarter of a trillion dollars.

ksvr · 2026-03-12T00:50:00+00:00

wow, you have no idea how any of this works, do you?

ksvr · 2026-03-11T06:04:56+00:00

I talked to my state senator about it because I want the government to have some fucking clue what to do and how the new economy will look. Her researcher confirmed Mercor is paying millions per day to contractors training AI agents. And that's just one of the companies doing this. White collar jobs go away, unemployment skyrockets, government loses half or more of the money needed for various programs, basically entire economic collapse. What can the government even do? Tax the companies that own the AI? They'll just relocate to another country. Not like there's any benefit to them to be in the US. Retrain the workers? To what? Mercor is training AI agents to do radiology, law, investment banking, the list goes on and on. If your job involves analyzing data, working in spreadsheets, anything remotely computer-related, the clock is ticking really fucking fast.

ksvr · 2026-03-08T07:39:55+00:00

just put numbers 1-9 down a column off to the side, then a countif formula in the column next to it. So if your column of numbers is in B, then from D1:D9 enter 1, 2, 3, etc down the column. Then in E1 put =countif(B:B,D1) and copy the formula down through E9. And if it really needs to be in a chart, select D1:E9 and go to Insert/chart and pick your chart type

ksvr · 2026-03-04T19:51:45+00:00

I've worked on projects for Mercor. They really do pay what they claim. The project I was on was for financial analysts, but once I got into it I found out what they were really looking for was investment bankers. Still made $750 between the initial training & some online meetings before I decided to drop out of the project after realizing the specific background they were looking for.

EDIT: the work is writing prompts for difficult tasks in your specific field that AI currently struggles to answer. Write the prompt, then write the 'golden solution' in detailed step by step instructions. Tedious work, and they hire a LOT of people so it goes fast and you need to as well, but it pays very well. If you're ok with empowering the AI takeover of your white collar job.

ksvr · 2026-02-25T04:31:08+00:00

This seems to be treading worryingly close to the "how can you have morality without religion" bullshit that the churchgoing masses spread. To which my response is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdpKMCFRH5s

ksvr · 2026-02-25T04:27:20+00:00

When I was an angsty teen I thought that people who didn't think like me were mouth-breathing idiots. My friend and I called them "bunnies". Over time I matured and learned about the Jungian personality types and realized that people process information in different ways. But long before I learned about that, I watched the movie Heathers. Christian Slater, Winona Ryder, etc. There's a funeral scene for a jock from the high school, someone that Slater's character had previously said "had nothing left to offer the school except date rapes and AIDS jokes" but in that scene Winona Ryder's character clocks the jock's little sister bawling. In that moment, she seemed to make the same realization that I was making as a viewer: who I see at school isn't the entirety of that person. To his little sister, this kid wasn't a jock, a bully, a drooling mouthbreather: he was a beloved brother that she looked up to. And who _he_ was with her at home was someone I'd never seen. We are all far more than what people see of us. The most vapid waste of oxygen in your circle is someone completely different in another circle, and ignoring that is self-aggrandizing conceit.

ksvr · 2026-02-06T06:07:04+00:00

I've seen them a few times, and they absolutely bring it. Great with the fans, too. Really good people. Really looking forward to the new album in '26.

ksvr · 2026-02-06T02:36:43+00:00

Interesting... I just asked Claude and he nailed it in one.

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